Agroznanje, vol. 15, br. 2, 2014, 207-216 207 Professional paper Stručni rad UDK: 631.1:658.3(497.7) DOI: 10.7251/AGREN1402207P Trend of Increase or Desrease in Sheep Breeding in Separate Regions of Republic of Macedonia Biljana Petrovska 1 , Zhivko Gacovski 1 , Goce Cilev 1 , Natasha Petrovska 1 , Igor Zdraveski 1 1 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, St. Clement of Ohrid University of Bitola, R. Macedonia Abstract The national agricultural policy in R. Macedonia to encourage the development of agriculture is conducted to obtain more competitiveness in the market by subsidizing agriculture, including sheep breeding. Analysis of data from the State Statistical Office of R. Macedonia has shown that the subsidizing agriculture has increased in the period from 2005 to 2013, which contributes to the increase in exports. The subject of this research paper is to observe the number of sheep in the individual and business sectors in R. Macedonia by regions: Vardar, Eastern, Southwest, Southeast, Pelagonia, Polog, Northeast and Skopje region. The aim is to see whether this branch of husbandry registered an upward or downward trend in the period from 2009 to 2012. From the analysis it can be concluded that the decreasing trend is present, but the latest data for the period of 2013 show that the state of sheep breeding is much better. Key words: agricultural policy, subvention, development program Introduction Sheep breeding in R. Macedonia has a long tradition and this has been supported by favorable natural conditions and ecological clean areas of this territory. More than 50% of the agricultural area is high mountain